[erlang-questions] [Patch] XMERL Attributes without whitespaces

[Eranga Udesh]

What do you mean? I use the online validator at
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_validator.asp

- Eranga

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Anthony Ramine <n.oxyde@REDACTED> wrote:

> How did you feed XML to the W3C validator given that you can't limit it to
> XML analysis?
>
> Le 15 sept. 2014 à 13:22, Eranga Udesh <eranga.erl@REDACTED> a écrit :
>
> > Hi Motiejus,
> >
> > It is not just W3C parser, but it seems PHP/Java XML parser(s) too
> support attributes without spaces.
> >
> > For one of our projects in Erlang, we had to customize xmerl, because
> their existing XML parsers are supporting the XML syntax without
> whitespaces in attributes. When validated the same XML in W3C, no errors
> shown, so being a new solution, we had to comply to their existing XML
> syntax.
> >
> > - Eranga
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Motiejus Jakštys <desired.mta@REDACTED>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Eranga Udesh <eranga.erl@REDACTED>
> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > However W3C (http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_validator.asp)
> validates above
> > > XLM without any errors. Therefore I guess xmerl better support that.
> >
> > Hi, Udesh,
> >
> > according to XML 1-1 specification[1], your example does not adhere to
> > the grammar. Relevant grammar sections:
> >
> > [3]   S   ::=   (#x20 | #x9 | #xD | #xA)+
> > [40]   STag   ::=   '<' Name (S Attribute)* S? '>'
> > [41]   Attribute   ::=    Name Eq AttValue
> >
> > Important bit: (S Attribute)*. As you can see, Attribute can never
> > follow Attribute without a whitespace between them.
> >
> > > Attached is a patch to fix that. It could help others too, if that
> patch is
> > > added to the xmerl package distributed in OTP distribution.
> >
> > Maybe that W3C parser supports non-spaced attributes is coincidental?
> > Or maybe I am looking at the wrong grammar?
> >
> > --
> > Motiejus Jakštys
> >
> > [1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/#sec-starttags
> >
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